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From some of the folks who brought us Airplane and the Naked Gun films comes Mafia!, a sporadically funny spoof on The Godfather and its sequels that also manages to get some digs in on The Full Monty, Casino, Showgirls, Goodfellas and Il Postino. In his last role, Bridges plays an elderly Don who finds sons Mohr and Burke in competition for his underworld throne. With that, director Abrahams moves the action all over the place -- from New York to Las Vegas, and -- in flashbacks -- to Salmonella, Italy. All of this is briskly handled for an hour; then, with a series of gross-out sequences, one gets the idea the well ran dry for Abrahams and company. Originally titled Jane Austen's Mafia!, this is one movie viewers could refuse -- unless they're real Godfather fans.